On Jan 6, 10:42 am, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > heh. Just ran across some old PDF files that I cannot seem to open > anymore. Preview gives an empty window. Adobe Reader crashes. > Tried full Acrobat on XP - it blue screens. That's a good example of > how Adobe formats work - even the "open" ones. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth
This is a perfect illustration of why you don't want to use a proprietary format for archival storage. The future of the format remains in the hands of the owner, who can change it as they see fit. PDF, JPG and other formats, while they might be de facto standards, are still proprietary formats, and may not exist at all in a few years. TIFF is still the recommended solution. http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-imaging-bp.pdf This guide addresses all aspects of long-term archival best practices for visual documents. This was developed in collaboration with the Library of Congress and OCLC/Dublin Core. There may be many opinions as to how this sort of project should be undertaken, but the research has already been done, and the guidelines established. Good luck! V Mabus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
